What's On
Toxteth 1981
International Slavery Museum
1st Jul 2011 - 1st Jul 2012A community exhibition to mark the 30th anniversary in July 2011 of the riots in Liverpool 8 ....
Age of the Dinosaur
World Museum
22nd Oct 2011 - 15th Apr 2012Get ready to experience the sights, sounds and smells of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods ....
The Art Books of Henri Matisse
Walker Art Gallery
21st Oct 2011 - 15th Apr 2012An exhibition comprising 63 framed original illustrations with text from four of Matisse’s most significant books ....
Wirral Farmers' Market
New Ferry Village Hall
10th Mar 2012An established Farmers' Market less than 10 minutes walk from Bebington Railway Station ....
Costume Drama: Fashion 1790 to 1850
Sudley House
8th Jul 2011 - 7th May 2012An exhibition that explores the development of fashionable dress during a period of rapid social change ....
Model Boat Fair
National Waterways Museum
3rd Mar 2012 - 4th Mar 2012There will be big boats and small boats, docks and locks ....
Places
- Acton Bridge
- Adlington
- Alderley Edge
- Alsager
- Altrincham
- Ashley
- Audlem
- Bache
- Bebington
- Bidston
- Birchwood
- Birkenhead
- Bramhall
- Bromborough
- Buckley
- Buxton
- Caergwrle
- Capenhurst
- Cefn-y-Bedd
- Chapel-en-le-Frith
- Cheadle Hulme
- Chelford
- Cheshire Oaks
- Chester
- Congleton
- Crewe
- Cuddington & Sandiway
- Davenport
- Delamere
- Derby
- Disley
- Dove Holes
- Earlestown
- Eastham
- Edge Hill
- Ellesmere Port
- Flixton
- Frodsham
- Furness Vale
- Glazebrook
- Goostrey
- Gwersyllt
- Hale
- Halewood
- Handforth
- Hawarden
- Hazel Grove
- Heaton Chapel
- Helsby
- Heswall
- Holmes Chapel
- Hooton
- Hope
- Hoylake
- Ince & Elton
- Irlam
- Kelsall
- Kidsgrove
- Knutsford
- Leasowe
- Levenshulme
- Little Sutton
- Liverpool
- Liverpool John Lennon Airport
- Longport
- Lostock Gralam
- Lymn
- Macclesfield
- Malpas
- Manchester
- Manchester Airport
- Meols
- Middlewood
- Mobberley
- Moreton
- Mouldsworth
- Nantwich
- Neston
- New Brighton
- New Mills
- Newton-le-Willows
- Northwich
- Padgate
- Penyffordd
- Plumley
- Port Sunlight
- Poynton
- Prees
- Prestbury
- Rock Ferry
- Runcorn
- Sandbach
- Sankey
- Shotton
- Shrewsbury
- Spital
- Stanlow & Thornton
- Stockport
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Styal
- Tarporley & Beeston
- Upton
- Urmston
- Uttoxeter
- Wallasey
- Warrington
- Wem
- West Kirby
- Whaley Bridge
- Whitchurch
- Widnes
- Wilmslow
- Winsford
- Woodsmoor
- Wrenbury
- Wrexham
- Yorton
In 1864 expansion of Liverpool docks required the Observatory to be moved to Bidston Hill. The observatory provided Liverpool with an accurate time and weather forecasts by studying the stars. As late as 1969, a noon cannon, operated by Bidston by telegraph was fired at Birkenhead, to enable the people of Liverpool to set their clocks.
Bidston Windmill, complete with sails, is visible from all over the Wirral. It was built to replace an earlier mill destroyed in 1791 and worked until about 1875.
Tam O'Shanter Cottage was built around 300 years ago. Its name comes from a stone carving of the poem Tam O'Shanter by Robert Burns, which adorns a wall on the site. Four acres around the cottage have been developed as a city farm known as the Tam O'Shanter Urban Farm.